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Holocaust Study Resources

Overview

YIVO's Holocaust collections can be found in two separate departments‚Äîthe Library and the Archives‚Äîaccording to type of material. Books, periodicals, and newspapers are kept in the Library; while manuscripts, organizational files, and photographs are held by the Archives.

Holocaust Study Resources in the Library

ID card issued in Mainz by the Nazis in 1939. The bearer of the card is identified as a Jew by the large Gothic letter "J" and by the addition of the middle name "Sarah" to her original name. (Records of the Institut der NSDAP zur Erforschung der Judenfrage‚ Frankfurt am Main) YIVO Archives

The YIVO Library has a wide range of publications, in many languages, that relate to the Holocaust. These include:

BibliographiesAmong these are the 13-volume series published jointly by YIVO and Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), covering sources in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Hungarian. French sources are covered in bibliographies published by the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Paris), and German sources in the Wiener Library's Catalogue Series (London). Abraham J. and Hershel Edelheit's Bibliography on Holocaust Literature (3 vols.) is the most extensive guide to books and articles in English.

Reference booksThese include the Encyclopaedia Judaica (16 vols.), the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (4 vols.), and comprehensive surveys, such as the following:

The Destruction of the European Jews, by Raul Hilberg (Chicago, 1967)

The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe during the Second World War, by Martin Gilbert (New York, 1985)

The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945, by Leni Yahil (Oxford, 1990)

The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945, by Lucy S. Dawidowicz (New York, 1975)